101 Things to do with Your Match in the Community

1. Attend a craft fair
2. Attend a theatre performance
3. Bake a pizza and your favourite cookie recipe
4. Build Lego and a model (house, car, boat, etc.)
5. Build a snow fort and make a snowman
6. Catch butterflies, find insects
7. Create jigsaw puzzle
8. Decorate your Christmas tree and take down lights and ornaments together
9. Do landscaping and gardening together
10. Draw pictures and color together
11. Do some painting – a fence, a picture, a face
12. Do some woodwork and build a bird’s house, bird’s feeder and a box
13. Do arts and craft
14. Read a mystery story together or write one
15. Find something your Little has never tried or a food she/he has never tasted
16. Get a book from the library on science experiments or crafts
17. Get your Little to direct you to your destination by using a map
18. Go Bowling
19. Go cheer Little at one of his/her games
20. Go downhill skiing – don’t forget your safety gear
21. Go fishing (learn how to tie flies)
22. Go hiking
23.  Adopt a country: learn its culture
24. Go watch a baseball or hockey game
25. Go horseback riding
26. Go see the mentor’s worksite
27. Go skating at different rinks, both indoor and outdoor
28. Go to a flea market or farmers market
29. Go to a musical concert or play
30. Go to the park
31.  Take dancing lessons together
32. Go to the theatre
33. Go to the library and read about a favourite subject
34. Go mini golfing  
35. Go ride go-karts
36. Go biking with your Little
37. Go swimming
38. Go tobogganing
39. Have a barbecue
40. Have a game of tag
41. Have a garage sale
42. Help your Little with his/her science project
43. Have your Little help you with a project around your house.
44. Keep a journal of your activities
45. Learn about astronomy together
46. Learn to play a musical instrument together
47. Learn to take pictures and make a photo album together
48. Listen to music and try to create your own song
49. Make a gift or card for someone special
50. Make a sailboat and sail it in a creek
51. Make paper snowflakes
52. Make jewelry out of beads
53. Make your kite or Fly a kite
54. Make paper-mache
55. Make your own gift wrap or gift bag
56. Make a scrap book together
57. Mow the lawn/rake the lawn
58. Paint some ceramics, pottery
59. Plan a picnic in a park
60. Plan and make dinner together
61. Plant a tree together and give it a nice name
62. Play “hang man” or “I Spy” with your Little when you’re in the car
63. Play cards (Go Fish, Crazy Eights)
64. Play Nintendo or computer games
65. Go to the driving range
66. Play games together (ping pong, soccer, tennis, road hockey, basketball, etc.)
67. Read the newspaper headlines and have your Little guess the story.
68. Attend local festivals
69. Rent a movie and make lots of popcorn
70. See a play
71.  make a musical instrument together
72.  take a walk along the creek and catch frogs
73. Take an art class together
74. Take a Christmas lights tour around the town
75. Tell good stories of when you were their age
76. Tour a police or
77.  visit each others families
78. Tour a fire station
79. Try cross-country skiing or snowboarding
80. Try canoeing at the Lake  
81. Visit a farm
82. Visit a pet store
83.  Visit a Library and find out what year the Beatles were born
84.  start a collection (rocks, coins, stamps etc.)
85.  Create a scavenger hunt for your Little to do
86.  go berry picking
87.  sit by a camp fire and sing camp songs
88.  help your little with a school project
89. Volunteer your time together
90. Walk or wash the dog
91.  go window shopping
92. Wash a car together
93.  create a comic book together
94. Write and perform your own play and video tape it
95. Write your song and sing together in the car
96. Write a good story together
97. Watch or attend an antique show
98.  Give your little a budget for the day and have him/her plan your activities
99.  Attend a city or town council meeting. (Let the mayors office know you are coming first)
100.  Visit the nearest University or College
101. Hunt and shoot wild life (with a camera)

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